BUDGET OF 2006 WILL BE EXPANSIONARY

Azat Artsakh Nagorno Karabakh Republic [NKR]
29 Aug 05

On August 23 the meeting of the NKR government took place. Several
questions on the agenda referred to the activity of the Ministry of
Territorial Management and Development of Infrastructures. By the
decisions made during this meeting the ministry was put in charge
of electricity and energy consumption, energy saving, trade and
services and postal services. The government approved privatization
of several state and community-owned enterprises and the amendments
to the government decisions on the social security of servicemen and
their families, the list of humanitarian and charity organizations
working in NKR. The only project presented at the meeting, the
project of amendments to the NKR law on police service was approved
as well. The meeting also approved the payment of compensation to
Karabakh Telecom in return for the free installation of telephones,
and the head of the executive charged the corresponding ministries
to conduct monitoring and work out the list of the groups of people
who will be granted this allowance. A series of questions included in
the agenda had been put forward by the NKR State Committee of Real
Estate Cadastre. The government confirmed the project of confirming
the temporary data set of the land cadastre of farming land located
in the administrative territories of communities, providing premises
to the state non-profit organization Center for Geodesy, Mapping,
Land Engineering, Assessment of Realty, descriptions of the borders
and the 1:200000 scale topographic maps enciphering the borders of
NKR regions and Stepanakert, amendments to a number of decisions
of the NKR government and the NKR land resources. Touching upon the
necessity of enlarging the borders of the city of Stepanakert, Prime
Minister Anoushavan Danielian expressed anxiety about the current
situation. He instructed the heads of the corresponding agencies
to work on this matter seriously, especially that the government
has already launched the mortgage programme. After the discussion
of the agenda the government discussed a number of urgent questions,
including winter wheat and preparations for winter. At the same time A.
Danielian instructed to conduct joint consultations to discuss the new
budget bill. In comparison to the budget of 2005 the state budget of
2006 will be considerably expansionary, and nevertheless tense. Taking
into account the increasing sums and the relieved social problems,
I think it is time that the heads of ministries and agencies present
optimal programmes allowing to improve the equipment and work of the
given systems,- said Anoushavan Danielian.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress